kitchen-sinkery
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
30
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
2
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The style of the kitchen sink realism, depicting social realities in an unstylized and direct manner.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "If there's one thing that binds me rigid it's kitchen-sinkery. We should have brought a washing machine, then no doubt old Chin - Chin would have turned out clean shirts for us every day."
- "In doing so, we've acquired a dishwasher. No matter that it's elderly, if not obsolete — it's our chance to put kitchen-sinkery behind us and begin a leisured after-dinner life."
- "All of that could read like the obligatory kitchen-sinkery of so many postmodern novels, too suspicious of conventional narrative to settle down."
Etymology
From kitchen sink + -ery.